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O Store Gud

O Store Gud (O Great God) was a poem written by Carl Boberg, Mönsterås (south-eastern Sweden) in 1885. It was a rather long poem. There are altogether nine stanzas in this poem. The poem was sung in a church in Sweden in 1888 to a Swedish folk tune. It was said to be a paraphrase of Psalm 8 and was used in the underground church in the late 1880s.

Carl Boberg later sold the rights to this poem to the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden.

It was later translated into German in 1907 entitled 'Wie groß bist Du’ and to Russian in 1912 and known as 'Velikiy Bog’.

In 1925, verses 1 to 2, and 7 to 9 were literally translated to English by E. Gustav Johnson (1893–1974) and was titled ‘O Mighty God’.

This is also the hymn that inspired Stuart Wesley Keene Hine, a Methodist missionary to write the great Christian hymn,
How Great Thou Art.

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